Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

What did the king shout about the otter, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, shout

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shout	nsubj
5	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 otter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 otter	det
8	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shout	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 shout	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	shout speech: express	present	the king					about the otter	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about otter=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He'd nab it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nab	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 nab	aux
3	nab	nab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	would	He	it					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

He'd have grabbed the egg quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 grabbed	aux
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obj
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grabbed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	would · perfect	He	the egg				quick property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

If the otter were here, he'd nab the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 here	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 otter	det
3	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 here	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 nab	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nab	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 nab	aux
9	nab	nab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 egg	det
11	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the otter					here property	tree rules
2	nab	would	otter	the egg					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 4

If the otter came, he'd bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 otter	det
3	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bite	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bite	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bite	aux
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	past	the otter						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bite	would	otter						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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